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Ashburnham Hill Rd
A couple of turns off Ashburnham Hill Rd in Fitchburg takes you to the end of Scott Rd where it turns into a dirt road. I walked in from there and stayed to the south, straying downhill to a place a bit north of the "O" in "Overlook". Here I saw a curious disturbance:
Take a closer look at this structure to the right:
Isn't that purdy?
I did not know what to make of this thing - it combined the look of a sandpit with the look of a rock pile. Again:
It got worse, downhill from there, behind the parking lot for the Audubon Soc. "Flat Rock" parking lot. Things got really confusing.
What's this?
Some little terraces:
Some stone support structures (not "bays"):
Some rock piles heading off into the woods:
Does that look practical? You tell me.
What about this one, built into a stone wall?
Another view,
A closeup of the quartz, visible in the first picture:
Here is the length of the wall:
At this point I recalled seeing something similar across Ashburnham Hill Rd on the drive in. So I was not far, walked over, and I snuck in to what seemed private property in order to get a photo:
Not quite the same thing as by the "Flat Rock" parking lot but close enough. I guess that, here, there are older ceremonial structures overlain by the more modern. Back at the parking lot, there was a house foundation,
and a stone lined brook.
And other signs that this could have been a mill. All in all, this site was as ambiguous as a place could be.
A couple of turns off Ashburnham Hill Rd in Fitchburg takes you to the end of Scott Rd where it turns into a dirt road. I walked in from there and stayed to the south, straying downhill to a place a bit north of the "O" in "Overlook". Here I saw a curious disturbance:
Take a closer look at this structure to the right:
Isn't that purdy?
I did not know what to make of this thing - it combined the look of a sandpit with the look of a rock pile. Again:
It got worse, downhill from there, behind the parking lot for the Audubon Soc. "Flat Rock" parking lot. Things got really confusing.
What's this?
Some little terraces:
Some stone support structures (not "bays"):
Some rock piles heading off into the woods:
Does that look practical? You tell me.
What about this one, built into a stone wall?
Another view,
A closeup of the quartz, visible in the first picture:
Here is the length of the wall:
At this point I recalled seeing something similar across Ashburnham Hill Rd on the drive in. So I was not far, walked over, and I snuck in to what seemed private property in order to get a photo:
Not quite the same thing as by the "Flat Rock" parking lot but close enough. I guess that, here, there are older ceremonial structures overlain by the more modern. Back at the parking lot, there was a house foundation,
and a stone lined brook.
And other signs that this could have been a mill. All in all, this site was as ambiguous as a place could be.
3 comments :
What's a "bay?"
Well I forget exactly what the right word is....oh yeah "pier" is used for a stone support structure. I'll fix the text.
Thanks
Ambiguous, or maybe just used for thousands of years, including the present?
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